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Cultural relativism teaches us that no group of people have unique access to the truth, that the validity of beliefs and customs are limited to the civilization from which they spring. Oh gamers, we have been bad cultural relativists indeed! Where is the empathy, I ask you, for the piggy, slaughter
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BioWare, creators of the beloved Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, is known perhaps more than anything for the quality of its writing. The Border House interviewed BioWare writer Ann Lemay. We work in an open-floor office, each in four-desk units with semi-clear dividers that afford some privacy, b
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All too often, the word “gamer” seems to describe a personality in its entirety. One’s gaming identity is somehow divorced from all the other aspects of one’s personality. Adam Ruch at Kotaku AU fights against this assumption. By being a gamer, I do not stop being a man, a university lecturer, a med
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The new indie spaceship management game FTL involves a lot of, well, managing, and not a lot of space exploration. Rampant Coyote of Rampant Games found the game full of emergent narrative, with some surprising solutions to the problem of putting out fires. The focus of the game is not on space – it
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Retro gamers will be familiar with the following cycle: you order a game online, you wistfully remember how awesome it was, the package arrives, and you have no desire to play it. This happened to me last time I stopped at GoG and bought Dungeon Keeper. Damien McFerran describes the problem at Eurog
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The webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal retells Pac-Man in the mode of surrealist existential horror.
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Everyone knows that there aren’t enough games set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by fish people. That all changes with Sealark, a kind of varation on Harvest Moon, with daily fishing taking the place of farming. Expect it in July 2013.
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Everyone loves freaking out at a good-old Boston Dynamics/Darpa robot video, and here is the latest disquieting news: no longer will your cybernetic doom be augured by the deafening metallic squeaks and squooks of robot joints. Robot death is now 10 times quieter!
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We all know we live in a future-shock security state with dwindling privacy and an increasingly tenuous grasp of our rights, but at least we have sweet, innocent videogames. Videogames which would never be used to spy on us, right? WRONG! A security surveillance firm is using Microsoft’s Kinect to a
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We think of our president as a basketball guy, but he’ll be asking for your vote in Madden this fall. Barack may be going for another term as president, but someone should let the guy know that DC, for the time being at least, is a monarchy. All hail Robert the Third!
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A wonderful read from Leigh Alexander at Gamasutra, about Ramiro Corbetta, the maker of Hokra, a “minimalist digital sports game.”
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Welcome to the year 5773! We celebrate with apples, honey, this list of the greatest Jewish videogame characters ever, and a shoutout, Adam Sandler-style, to three very special Jews who have made enormous contributions to our gaming lives. 1. Ralph Baer. The “Father of Videogames” escaped Nazi Germa